New update on calls for State Pension public inquiry into retirement age changes for 1950s-born women
dailyrecord.co.ukAn online petition calling for a public inquiry to be held into changes made to the State Pension age for women born in the 1950s has passed the 10,000 signature threshold and is now entitled to a written response from the UK Government.
Petition creator Kay Clarke argues that increases to the State Pension age have left many women in “financial and mental despair” and believes that an inquiry “is necessary to expose the truth”.
The founding member of the WOW (1950s Women of Wales and beyond group has posted the ‘Hold a Public Inquiry into State Pension age changes for women’ petition on the petitions-parliament website.
It states: “We request a Public Inquiry into their State Pension age changes for women, which we believe have left many in a state of financial and mental despair.
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